The Gallup McKinley County Schools District had something to celebrate at the school board meeting May 24 after the Lady Bengals won their state championship game three days before.

The board took the opportunity to congratulate the girls’ win with handshakes and plaques.

When it was his turn to congratulate them, Superintendent Mike Hyatt commented that Gallup had not seen a championship in a while, and that some people might not expect it from their school because they don’t have the tallest athletes.

“[The girls] really fought every single game,” Hyatt said. “I watched them play against some girls who were my height and they took care of them quite easily.”

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Thoreau, May 14

She invited him in. But the glow wore off quickly.

A woman called the police after a drunken man broke several items inside her mobile home.

On May 14, around 5:29 pm, McKinley County Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Davis Jr. III was sent to #61-A Rose Street in Thoreau.

When the deputy met with the caller, she led him inside to a bedroom, where Brian Begay, 25, of Thoreau was seated on the bed. In the report he filed with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, Davis said Begay seemed calm when they met.

Davis asked Begay if he could speak with him outside in his patrol car. When the officer led Begay outside, he said he could smell liquor on the man’s...

A cell phone dropped into a leech vault at the Northern New Mexico Regional Solid Waste Authority where three men were replacing a pump off Highway 371, north of Thoreau a little before 11:26 am on May 25.  It wasn’t an easy retrieval.  The opening was similar in size to a manhole cover. The platform at the bottom was over 10 feet down with a ladder system attached to the inside wall.

It was initially reported to the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office that one employee went to find a tool to recover the phone. But, when he returned he did not see the other two employees around the truck.

He looked into the vault and saw that both employees were at the bottom. Neither one of them...

A Gallup woman was abruptly awakened one morning when a strange man tried to break into her trailer home.

Gallup Police Officers Nicole Diswood and Timo Molina were dispatched to her address at 624 Hazel Dr. on April 11.

On the way Metro Dispatch said the man had broken the window and was trying to crawl inside. When Diswood arrived she saw the man in question. He was identified as Timothy Saucedo, 23 of Gamerco.

Diswood told Saucedo to come toward her. She also told him to turn around and put his hands behind his back. In her report to McKinley County Magistrate Court, Diswood said Saucedo’s hands and arms were bleeding.

She asked Saucedo if he knew anyone who lived in the...